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Greenbelt Festival 2010 | Slideshow & Listen

Over the last six days of August a team of particularly keen meditators made their way to Cheltenham for a week of camping, praying, and soaking up all that Greenbelt Festival has to offer. With a participant capacity of 21,00, and events of every kind – from comedy to music, talks to drama, meditative Mass to Goth Eucharist – this was a chance for part of the WCCM community to share in some of the diversity that makes up our Church, as well as to spread the word about meditation and the prayer of the heart.

Second in attractiveness only to the meditation itself was the impressive yurt which housed our times of prayer. Twenty-one feet in diameter, two and half hours in constructing, and lent for the week by generous friends of WCCM, we were quite the cream of the campsite crop.

We gathered three times each day to still ourselves within its beautiful structure of wooden poles and canvas, and by the end of the week it had become a space of spirit and silence. Read more »

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WCCM Pilgrimage to Malaysia

With the most gracious help and guidance of Dr Patricia Por, National Coordinator, Malaysia , 23 pilgrims of the meditation community from Hong Kong led by Fr Sean Dwan,went to a week long pilgrimage from Aug 9-15 to Malaysia where Christian Meditation took root there. All were amazed and felt it a blessing to meditate at the Temple of the Universal Temple where Fr John Main used to meditate with the Swami Satyanada. Every single day in Penang, Ipoh, Malacca and Kuala Lumpur we received royal welcome from the local meditators -- we celebrated Mass, meditated, dined and had fellowship together. One of the most memorable and moving highlights of the pilgrimage was on Day 4 when we visited the Temple of the Universal Spirit and had chance to communicate with Mother Mangalam, the successor of the Hindu Guru Satyananda who first introduced Christian meditation to Fr John Main. Mother remembered vividly how Fr John made his way up to narrow steps leading to the temple. Read more »

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